Free Will Quotes

Free will is located in or near the anterior cingulate sulcus.

Man is nothing: he hath a free will to go to hell, but none to go to heaven, till God worketh in him to will and to do his good pleasure.

Everything, including that which happens in our brains, depends on these and only on these: A set of fixed, deterministic laws.

If someone claims to have free will, ask them, free from precisely what?

Thought isn't a form of energy. So how on Earth can it change material processes? That question has still not been answered.

A man has free choice to the extent that he is rational.

You are not controlling the storm, and you are not lost in it. You are the storm.

If experimenters have free will, then so do elementary particles.

You are the Creator of your reality... you were granted this ability. You have free will... you are an unlimited aspect, a portion of God... of the Creator... of All That Is.

The Bible consistently denies free will.

I live in sin, to kill myself I live; no longer my life my own, but sin's; my good is given to me by heaven, my evil by myself, by my free will, of which I am deprived.

There is nothing like a naturalistic orientation to dispel all these morbid thoughts of "sin" and "free will" and "moral responsibility.

I believe absolutely in my own free will and my own power to accomplish - and that is the belief that moves mountains.

Freedom is not a reaction; freedom is not a choice. . Freedom is found in the choiceless awareness of our daily existence and activity.

I have free will, but not of my own choice. I have never freely chosen to have free will. I have to have free will, whether I like it or not!

As far as I can see, it's not important that we have free will, just as long as we have the illusion of free will to stop us going mad.

Which brings me to my conclusion upon Free Will and Predestination, namely - let the reader mark it - that they are identical.

So many roads. So many detours. So many choices. So many mistakes.

I wear the chain I forged in life....I made it link by link, and yard by yard; I girded it on of my own free will, and of my own free will I wore it.

We have already shown that there is no such thing as free will. That's a will-o'-the-wisp. You never make choices without reasons, not as a responsible or a rational person

I wonder whether being a scientists daughter makes you so conflicted about free will and fate.

What multitudes, O Lord, do this day join hands with Pelagius in contending for free will and in fighting ... free grace.

The combination of foolishness in the heart and free will in the head is extremely volatile.

For you will certainly carry out God's purpose, however you act, but it makes a difference to you whether you serve like Judas or like John.

You are free to do what you want, but you are not free to want what you want.

Free will and consciousness is an illusion, and the self is a complex of memes.

Submit to the fate of your own free will.

Grace is necessary to salvation, free will equally so - but grace in order to give salvation, free will in order to receive it.

Free will is an illusion. People always choose the perceived path of greatest pleasure.

My first act of free will shall be to believe in free will.

Free will is "corrupted nature's deformed darling, the Pallas or beloved self-conception of darkened minds"

One thing I've learned that is basic but bears repeating constantly: You are created with free will. Not even the Creator can help you unless you ask for help.

Only when he voluntarily chooses that which he inexorably must do, has man any free will at all.

We assume that we have free will and that we make decisions, but we don't. Neurons do. We decide that this sum total driving us is a decision we have made for ourselves. But it is not.

Of course we have free will because we have no choice but to have it.

In the mind there is no absolute or free will.

I have my choice: who can wish for more? Free will enables us to do everything well while imposition makes a light burden heavy.

Life's no piece of cake, mind you, but the recipe's my own to fool with.

It is likely to make us think we are not caged. We cannot feel the bars unless we push against them.

Why did Father give these humans free will? Now they're all confused.

You may fetter my leg, but Zeus himself cannot get the better of my free will.

Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness on the confines of two everlasting empires, - Necessity and Free Will.

Life is a compromise between fate and free will.

Free will I have often heard of, but I have never seen it. I have always met with will, and plenty of it, but it has either been led captive by sin or held in the blessed bonds of grace.

The counsels and decrees of God do not truckle to the frail and fickle will of man.

We suffer from the evils which we, by our own free will, inflict on ourselves and ascribe them to God, who is far from being connected with them!

People allow themselves to be slaves of their bad habits and society's bad habits - but they have free will, and if they wish to be free they can.

The only way God could impose peace on the world would be to robotize our wills and rob every human being of the power of choice. He has not chosen to do that. He has given every person a free will.

Everything in nature is the result of fixed laws.

The free will is a pagan goddess that the Church has worshipped for far too long.